Word.ws English Dictionary

two-sided

two-sided adjective: having two sides, bilateral.

Adjective

two-sided (not comparable)

  1. Having two sides, bilateral.
  2. Reversible.
    • A reversible coat is two-sided and would allow you to change your appearance.
    • This output control line is used to select which side of a two-sided floppy disk is to be used for reading or writing.1984, Steve Ciarcia, Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, volume 4, page 162
  3. Whose salient properties apply when (the specified object) appears on either side of a given binary operator.
    • two-sided inverse — two-sided identity
  4. (figuratively) Having two aspects or viewpoints.
  5. That is necessarily or absolutely different than the respective coordinate alethic or temporal modality as well as its opposite.

Examples of two-sided in a sentence

  • The image of the two-sided cloak will help us explore the connections students have with the mortal realm, and the connections they have with 'inner realms,' as we'll call them for convenience.2002, Tamarin Laurel, Initiation at Beltane, →ISBN, page 304:
  • I lifted up the doll's dress and it was a two-sided doll, on the other side of the doll was a wolf!2009, Olivia Lousada, Hidden Twins: What Adult Opposite Sex Twins Have to Teach Us, →ISBN:
  • With the testimony against him, and his former suspicious character, besides his two-sided coat, things looked rather blue for poor Seymour.2016, John Carr, Pioneer Days in California:

Synonyms of two-sided

Words formed from two-sided

Phrases with two-sided

Questions about two-sided

What does two-sided mean?
Two-sided means having two sides, bilateral.
How do you use two-sided in a sentence?
The image of the two-sided cloak will help us explore the connections students have with the mortal realm, and the connections they have with 'inner realms,' as we'll call them for convenience.
What part of speech is two-sided?
Two-sided is an adjective.

Words near two-sided in the dictionary

  1. two-second rule
  2. Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist
  3. Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
  4. two-shot
  5. two-shots
  6. two-sided
  7. two-sided ideal
  8. two-sided ideals
  9. two-sidedness
  10. two-speed
  11. two-speed crossword

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: two-sided (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “two-sided.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/two-sided. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.